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GeoSpatial Solutions Client Demands and Industry’s Response. Greg Mulholland greg.mulholland@caris.com. 25 Years in Business Successful CARIS Installations in over 50 Countries 150+ professional/multilingual Employees Subsidiary Offices in The Netherlands and United States What We Do …
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GeoSpatial SolutionsClient Demands and Industry’s Response Greg Mulholland greg.mulholland@caris.com
25 Years in Business Successful CARIS Installations in over 50 Countries 150+ professional/multilingual Employees Subsidiary Offices in The Netherlands and United States What We Do … Develop, integrate and implement Spatial Information Management Software Solutions Consulting Professional Development Services Training Customer Services and Support About CARIS . . .
Client Demand: Maximize the Utility of the HUGE Investment in the Collection, Storage, Maintenance and Use of Geospatial Information Industry Response: Internet/Intranet Mapping Applications Why? Maximize interoperability between various data sources traditionally held in proprietary systems and data formats. Easy to use applications - Bring geospatial data and functionality to the end user Minimize data redundancy– Maintain data at its source Deploy Standards of Client Organization Client Demand, Industry Response
Spatial Fusion Data Service Spatial Data The Technology- CARIS Spatial Fusion • Configured and Deployed on a Server • Spatial Data Service • Used to Build and Deploy Customized Client Applications • Configurable: Spatial Fusion and/or OGC Service Client Application Request Response
Importance? OGC is: THE Internationally Accepted Standard for Interoperability Essentially HTML for GeoSpatial Data Properly adopted these standards are key to bringing together geospatial data from a variety of sources and locations Limitation: Functionality Interoperability- Open GeoSpatial Consortium (OGC)
Built on CARIS Spatial Fusion Technology An OGC compliant Web Map Server Spatial Data Translator An OGC compliant Cascading Web Map Server. Acts as a hub bringing data together to a centralized but virtual source An OGC compliant Web Feature Server Extended attribute queries Download Spatial Data (GML) Allows for data manipulation from distributed clients GML – Geographical Markup Language SLD - Stylized Layer Descriptor CARIS OGC Technologies
CARIS Spatial Fusion Server Client Application Request Spatial Fusion Data Service OGC Data Service CARIS Oracle Spatial Intergraph Autodesk Mr. Sid ESRI MapInfo GeoTiff S57
CARIS Spatial Fusion Client Applications • OGC Client – Standard Internet Browser • Pan, Zoom, View Map, etc…
CARIS Spatial Fusion Client Applications • Fusion Thin Client – Standard Internet Browser • Highlight Map Features, Retrieve Attributes, ect…
CARIS Spatial Fusion Client Applications • Thick Client– Java Applet • Built in functionality, Measure Tool, Buffer Analysis, etc…
CARIS Spatial Fusion Client Applications • Desktop Client Software – Deployed Locally or from Server • Load Local Data, Save work, Custom Queries, Analytical Functions, etc…
Functionality OGC vs. Spatial Fusion Functionality Spatial Fusion Thin Client Spatial Fusion Java Applet Spatial Fusion Desktop Full Desktop GIS OGC Client
CARIS GEOPORTAL CLIENT OGC Standards at Work: DFO GeoPortal Other External Portals Many SD Formats Search Engine OGC OGC Request CARIS Cascading WMS CARIS WFS Spatial data translator METADATA Search Engine ORACLE SPATIAL Metadata Registration Engine External WMS BSB S-57 Other
OGC Compliant Spatial Data Services Spatial Fusion WMS Minnesota MapServer WMS ArcIMS WFS ArcIMS WMS Client Applications GeoNOVA MapViewer ESRI Built GeoNOVA Municipal Services Mapping Application GeoNOVA Thematic Atlas (CARIS Built) CARIS Built Stylized Layer Descriptors Databases Multiple Data Sets
Any WMS Municipal Data Client Configuration Tool GeoNOVA Municipal Services Mapping Application OGC Compliant Spatial Data Services Minnesota MapServer WMS Spatial Fusion WMS ArcIMS WMS ArcIMS WFS CARIS Built Stylized Layer Descriptors Databases Multiple Data Sets GeoNOVA Spatial Data Infrastructure
The OGC is THE standard for interoperability Limited in Functionality Spatial Fusion Multiple Users in New Brunswick Highly Valued Advanced Functionality Many Useful Data Sets on Many Different Servers Spatial Fusion can play more than one role Pushing the limits of what is possible with Web Mapping OGC compliant WMS, WFS, CWMS, SLDs, GML All Spatial Fusion client applications can be configured to work with data from OGC compliant servers Food for Thought
OGC OGC OGC OGC OGC Any OGC Configured Client Dare to Dream – A New Brunswick SDI? NB Lung Association Service New Brunswick Spatial Fusion Spatial Fusion City of Fredericton Environment and Local Gov’t Spatial Fusion Spatial Fusion NB Emergency Measures Organization Anybody Anywhere Spatial Fusion Other WMS CGDI Natural Resources ArcIMS WMS Any Fusion Configured Client Many WMS